Barbee v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree; fourteen years in the penitentiary fixed as the punishment.

His second assignment of error complains that appellant had proved by his wife, that about the middle of July, 1904, the date appellant threshed oats at his house, deceased made indecent proposals to his wife at her home on the afternoon of that date; that said insults were communicated to appellant on the night before the homicide, and the killing occurred on the first meeting. And appellant also proved by Henry Rankin, that about the middle of July, 1904, in the…